Here it is just Sept. 09th and we are already starting to put up the indoor Halloween decorations! We have a huge desk system set up here that's shaped like a big "O" with a section missing to enter through. We are going to set up our LeMax Halloween village all the way around the whole top of the desks since it runs all the way around. It's a big space and we have a ton of pieces so we should be able to cover most of the top. We'll leave it up year round since we spend so much time in here. Might as well enjoy it all year long. Our old house in California was always decked out in "early Goth" as we called it. Since we were Goth-like before it became popular, it was just the way the house was. Skeletons hanging in closets, skulls all over my desk area along with my collection of horror figures. Halloween lights all over the walls and ceilings. It was great! Then we moved here and since the house was so white inside and Spooky decided that he wanted to keep it that way for a while, we lost our gothness. I missed it and kept my spare room looking like the old me but that went away the first time my mom came to visit. The fake baby skeleton hanging up in there just freaked her out too much.
We have decided that it's time to reclaim our dark selves and haunt our house inside and out all year long. After all, it goes with our business and it goes with our selves as well. As we've gotten older now, we've decided that it's time to just be ourselves again and stop trying to conform to "normal".
We now have a permanent Scarecrow in our front yard, after we started doing a "Raising of the Scarecrow" ritual but we decided to leave him up this past year and he needs some work. A new hat since the old one faded in the desert sun. And his stuffing needs repacking and refilling after last winter's rain. But he still looks pretty cool hanging up there year round like he's protecting our yard and home.
We have so many boxes of Halloween decorations, I don't know what all we'll put up yet but we've decided to put them up in September and leave some stuff up until Thanksgiving so we can enjoy them a bit more. Some stuff we'll leave up year round since no one comes out to visit us anymore.
We found a huge box filled with Halloween lights, orange, purple, candy corn colored. We may put some up on the outside of the house this year and inside as well. We always keep a black lace mantel curtain on our fireplace. It has spiders and web shapes woven into it. Then we put up a string of LED lit pumpkins and bats but the bats burned out within a week. Have to look for a new set of those!
Anyway, that's it so far, we'll keep you up-dated with the house haunting for Halloween 2011 as it goes up!
Labels: The Decorating Has Begun For Halloween 2011
